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Originally Posted by Cyklop
However I don't see what we can gain by having a satellite model at 90 kfeet? The existence of military satcom is a fact and nobody needs to detect them via ESM.
My wish is for DW to include a simulation of satcom transmission from surface units (including submarines at comms depth) - every time a player sends a chat message or forwards a track to the tactical data link network, ESM receivers should be able to pick it up (within an appropriately limited distance).
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Yes, I wish that too... but there isn't, I can't do that and don't know if anybody can.
I already said is not perfect
I put the sat at 90k feet for setting an altitude where it doesn't disturb other possible air platforms.
Is detectable via ESM because is the only way I figure out about how we could simulate communications with a satellite.
Is job for mission designer to make the satellite "usefull" for the player.
If the mission designer set the satellite as neutral, the AI will not attack it, so is not a problem if it can or not detect it.
So think this COMSAT as a radio signal, not as a radar->ESM contact. That's how I thought it to be.
In SC, with "user action" doctrine, this could be simulated simply raising the radio antenna, but the option is not more in DW...
As a mission designer I allways missed to have a way to transmit what I found. i.e: if I think it gives more realism if you, after slipping into a port and take photos, have to transmitt this info (from a save point, of course) for me is more realistic (despite having to do this via ESM) than any other possibility avaiable on vanilla game.
You give me an idea... maybe we can model a bunch of objects that transmit "radio" signals... :hmm: I mean, a building that emmits a radio comm and the task of the player is to intercept it... what the rest think about that?
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Originally Posted by Blacklight
Another cool idea would be to model a Predator or some other UAV's to deploy or have deployed over the area to send info to the platforms in the area. These things would be small and pretty hard to shoot down.
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The Predator UAV allready exists in the game
A little question, as English is not my mothertounge (You have probably noticed it
), is COMSAT or SATCOM??
